It showcases wonderful modernist design sensibilities with its sophisticated bezel and distinctive style. Its classic and simple understated silver dial and hands, give it a fashionable yet elegant vintage style. Its wide bezel has a wonderful guilloche finish.
Just as fine on the inside as it is on the outside, the watch is powered by Vacheron & Constantin's legendary extra-flat movement, co-developed with Audemars Piguet. Released in 1955 to celebrate the company's bicentennial, this minuscule mechanism is the thinnest movement ever created for a normal size watch, measuring a mere 1.64mm!
To honor the achievement Vacheron & Constantin presented personalized examples to several key Heads of State including President Dwight Eisenhower. Only a few luxury watches in the following decades would lay claim to this movement earning them reputations as masterpieces of twentieth-century watchmaking.
Like only the very finest watches in the world - select watches from the likes of Patek, AP, and V & C, it is adjusted to five positions, heat, cold, and even isochronism (the amount of wind left in the movement). The movement is stamped with the prestigious Poinçon de Genève attesting to its origin and quality.
Like many dress watches from the era, though it originally was a mens midsize watch, it is a small unisex size by today's standards, although its wide bezel gives it a larger presence on the wrist. It measures 27mm in diameter without the crown.
We were fortunate to acquire the watch in all-original condition. All of its parts are original down to the dial, hands, and original small Vacheron & Constantin winding crown.
Its 18K rose gold case is in near mint condition. Its untouched original dial is also in near mint condition with only light aging visible with the case closed.
Note that the photos make the aging look more prominent in them than it does in person.
Its extremely high-grade Vacheron & Constantin movement is clean.
Our Master Watchmaker has fully serviced the watch which consists of fully disassembling the movement, carefully inspecting each part, replacing any overly worn components, installing a correct new mainspring, reassembling and lubricating the movement, and extensive timing testing and regulation (a $695 value). It is keeping very accurate time.
For the finishing touch we have equipped it with a brand new Teju lizard strap making it ready for immediate enjoyment.
Accompanying the watch is its original Vacheron & Constantin "box" pouch.
Included with the purchase is a one-year C.O.T. international warranty on the movement and its function and a full-page custom printed Connoisseur of Time Certificate of Authenticity.
- Manufacturer: Vacheron & Constantin
- Country of origin: Switzerland
- Serial no.: 580,414
- Year built: c. second half of the 1960's
- Model: Ref. 6596
- Functions: Hours and Minutes
- Designed for: Men
- Case material: 18K gold
- Case markings (inside): Vacheron & Constantin, Swiss, .750, 18K, 6596, 394,532
- Case condition: Near mint with two hallmarks
- Dimensions: 27mm diameter, 31mm long lug tip to tip, 7mm thick
- Dial: Silver, gold applique baton indices, original and untouched, near mint with only slight aging visible around the periphery when the case is closed. Note that the photos make the aging look more prominent in them than it does in person.
- Hands: Original, rose gold, batons
- Movement type: Very high quality, V & C caliber 1003, extra-flat, stamped with prestigious Hallmark of Geneve, manually wound, rhodium-plated, "fausses côtes" decoration, 17 jewels, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to heat, cold, isochronism and 5 positions for very accurate timekeeping, self-compensating flat balance-spring, stamped with the prestigious Poinçon de Genève attesting to its origin and quality
- Jewels: 17 rubies
- Band: Teju lizard, remborde, brand new and unworn
- Width between lugs: 18mm
- Crystal: Mineral glass, mint condition
- Serviced: Our Master Watchmaker has fully serviced the watch which consists of fully disassembling the movement, carefully inspecting each part, replacing any overly worn components, installing a correct new mainspring, reassembling and lubricating the movement, and extensive timing testing and regulation (a $695 value).
- Timing: Timed to precision on a state-of-the-art computerized system. Keeping very accurate time.
- Warranty: 1-year international warranty. Please email [email protected] for details. Your watch is important to us, and we will take care of it for its lifetime. We provide the best after sale care in the business with an extremely experienced team of four master watchmakers all of whom each have over thirty-five years of experience and a large number of parts. One used to be the watchmaker for an authorized Rolex dealership and was given special training by Rolex at their Beverly Hills Service Center.
- Box/Papers: BOX - Original Vacheron & Constantin "box" pouch.; PAPERS - Custom printed Connoisseur of Time Certificate of Authenticity
- Returns: 7 days full refund. 100% satisfaction guarantee
